ix, 530 pages ; 24 cm

A systematic study, ranging from the salons of eighteenth-century Paris to the revolutionary cadres of the present century, views leadership as dialectic, synthetic, collective, and consciousness-raising and scrutinizes its causes and effects

Includes bibliographical references and index

Prologue: The crisis of leadership -- PART I: LEADERSHIP: POWER AND PURPOSE: The power of leadership -- The structure of moral leadership -- PART II: ORIGINS OF LEADERSHIP: The psychological matrix of leadership -- The social sources of leadership -- The crucibles of political leadership -- PART III: TRANSFORMING LEADERSHIP: Intellectual leadership: ideas as moral power -- Reform leadership -- Revolutionary leadership -- Heroes and ideologues -- PART IV: TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP: Opinion leadership: the missing piece of the puzzle -- Group leadership: bargainers and bureaucrats -- Party leadership -- Legislative leaderhip: the price of consensus -- Executive leadership -- PART V: IMPLICATIONS: THEORY AND PRACTICE: Decision and change -- Toward a general theory -- Political leadership as practical influence

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